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@ARTICLE{Fiorillo:627001,
author = {Fiorillo, Damiano Francesco Giuseppe and Raffelt, Georg G.},
title = {{T}heory of neutrino slow flavor evolution. {P}art {I}.
{H}omogeneous medium},
journal = {Journal of high energy physics},
volume = {04},
number = {4},
issn = {1126-6708},
address = {Heidelberg},
publisher = {Springer},
reportid = {PUBDB-2025-01526, arXiv:2412.02747},
pages = {146},
year = {2025},
note = {JHEP 04 (2025) 146. 32 pages, 4 figures; version accepted
for publication in JHEP. Title changed to match the series
of papers with arXiv:2501.16423. Typos fixed in the text},
abstract = {Dense neutrino gases can exhibit collective flavor
instabilities, triggering large flavor conversions that are
driven primarily by neutrino-neutrino refraction. One
broadly distinguishes between fast instabilities that exist
in the limit of vanishing neutrino masses, and slow ones,
that require neutrino mass splittings. In a related series
of papers, we have shown that fast instabilities result from
the resonant growth of flavor waves, in the same way as
turbulent electric fields in an unstable plasma. Here we
extend this framework to slow instabilities, focusing on the
simplest case of an infinitely homogeneous medium with
axisymmetric neutrino distribution. The relevant length and
time scales are defined by three parameters: the vacuum
oscillation frequency ω$_{E}$ = δm$^{2}$/2E, the scale of
neutrino-neutrino refraction energy $ \mu
=\sqrt{2}{G}_{\textrm{F}}\left({n}_{\nu
}+{n}_{\overline{\nu}}\right) $, and the ratio between
lepton and particle number $ \epsilon =\left({n}_{\nu
}-{n}_{\overline{\nu}}\right)/\left({n}_{\nu
}+{n}_{\overline{\nu}}\right) $. We distinguish between two
very different regimes: (i) For ω$_{E}$ ≪ μϵ$^{2}$,
instabilities occur at small spatial scales of order
(μϵ)$^{−1}$ with a time scale of order $ \epsilon
{\omega}_E^{-1} $. This novel branch of slow instability
arises from resonant interactions with neutrinos moving
along the axis of symmetry. (ii) For μϵ$^{2}$ ≪ ω$_{E}$
≪ μ, the instability is strongly non-resonant, with
typical time and length scales of order $
1/\sqrt{\omega_E\mu } $. Unstable modes interact with all
neutrino directions at once, recovering the characteristic
scaling of the traditional studies of slow instabilities. In
the inner regions of supernovae and neutron-star mergers,
the first regime may be more likely to appear, meaning that
slow instabilities in this region may have an entirely
different character than usually envisaged.},
keywords = {Neutrino Interactions (autogen) / Neutrino Mixing
(autogen)},
cin = {$Z_THAT$},
ddc = {530},
cid = {$I:(DE-H253)Z_THAT-20210408$},
pnm = {613 - Matter and Radiation from the Universe (POF4-613) /
DFG project G:(GEPRIS)283604770 - SFB 1258: Neutrinos und
Dunkle Materie in der Astro- und Teilchenphysik (NDM)
(283604770) / DFG project G:(GEPRIS)390783311 - EXC 2094:
ORIGINS: Vom Ursprung des Universums bis zu den ersten
Bausteinen des Lebens (390783311)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-613 / G:(GEPRIS)283604770 /
G:(GEPRIS)390783311},
experiment = {EXP:(DE-MLZ)NOSPEC-20140101},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
eprint = {2412.02747},
howpublished = {arXiv:2412.02747},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
SLACcitation = {$\%\%CITATION$ = $arXiv:2412.02747;\%\%$},
UT = {WOS:001471832200004},
doi = {10.1007/JHEP04(2025)146},
url = {https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/627001},
}